Grief
The Snowman and the sacrifices of Christmas
Nothing else has been quite as effective for introducing children to grief
On the politicisation of death
The tragic death of Brianna Ghey deserves a better response than the culture war
Our ultimate moment
Outstanding art for troubled times
On paying respects
A noble queue
A river of grief
The capital is suddenly submerged in mourning
“Thank you, ma’am, for everything”
On the death of Queen Elizabeth II
What we don’t talk about when we don’t talk about death
Mourning and moving furniture
Smoke Signals
How a song can drift across a life
The Critic Books Podcast: Nick Blackburn’s The Reactor
A compelling memoir about grief and repair
Richard Coles and the madness of grief
Michael Coren talks to his friend, Rev Richard Coles, about Coles’ forthcoming memoir on love, loss and grief
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
The Conservatives should not cancel Christians
A Conservative party that demonises Christian convictions will cease to be conservative
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
No joke
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
